with intent, by design, on purpose, Elon Musk is destroying twitter at the behest of the Saudis who couldn’t buy the conversation, but found a patsy who wanted access to the Saudi Arabian markets for his rockets ships and electric cars, who could

  • @Gsus4
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    1 year ago

    I still think you’re giving him way too much credit. Either way, he ain’t getting out of this without looking like an idiot who is way over his head and should stick to what he is good at: hype and marketing.

    • deejay4am
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      51 year ago

      I mean sure he might be a useful idiot- but we’ve seen plenty of old money world powers thrusting egotistical useful idiots in way over their heads to destabilize the balance of the world in the past decade…

      • @Gsus4
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        21 year ago

        Yea, but what are they expecting by paying 44B? That every sad twatter sod moves to tiktok? Because we aren’t suddenly going to go outside. Anyway, this may become a very special summer for people to experience the great outdoors (or not, e.g. France) if a billionaire buys and shutters a popular platform in a year :)